Civil Year

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or year:

    Come, civil night,
    Thou sober-suited matron all in black.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)